NIH has censored Ariel Fernandez, a physicist and chemist with a Yale University Ph. D. and a retired endowed chair professor from Rice University. By weaponizing the Office of Research Integrity, NIH resurrected a closed case of research misconduct after more than a decade. The administrative action was triggered by Fernandez’s challenge of the official narrative regarding the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Fernandez was the first scientist to report that SARS-CoV-2 is a lab product of gain of function research, at a variance with the official narrative that claimed that SARS-CoV-2 was a zoonotic occurrence. Ariel Fernandez has been censored and discredited by NIH at the instigation of Peter Daszak, the NIH contractor who engaged the Wuhan Institute of Virology to perform the gain of function research that caused the pandemic. The censorship of Ariel Fernandez is part of the Covid-19 cover-up implemented by NIH/DHHS.